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AESCULUS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia

Synonyms:

Aesculus; genus Aesculus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Aesculus" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Aesculus"):

Aesculus hippocastanum; buckeye; horse chestnut (tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds)

Holonyms ("Aesculus" is a member of...):

family Hippocastanaceae; Hippocastanaceae; horse-chestnut family (trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule)

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